Concentration Camps Today
Soviet Russia (Western Siberia)
Death camps:
10
• Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk Region) (uranium mine & enrichment facility)
• Chelyabinsk-40 (nuclear warhead production & nuclear power plant)
• Kishtim (Chelyabinsk Region) (uranium mine & enrichment facility)
• Kishtovka (Novosibirsk Region) (at least 6 camps; open-pit uranium mines)
• Novosibirsk (nuclear warhead production)
(death by radiation poisoning in all 10)
Forced-labor concentration camps:
357
• 9 for children (Abakan [Krasnoyarsk], Barnaul [Altay], Bogdanovich [Sverdlovsk], Krasnoturinsk [Sverdlovsk], Nizhnyi Tagil [Sverdlovsk], Novosibirsk [2], Tomsk, Verkhoturye [Sverdlovsk])
• 7 for women and their babies (Anzhero-Sudzhensk [Kemerovo], Gornaya Shoriya [Altay], Kemerovo, Novoaltaisk [Altay], Novosibirsk, Suslovo [Kemerovo], Tobolsk [Tyumen])
• 4 for women and children (Novokuznetsk [Kemerovo], Partizanskoe [Krasnoyarsk], Tomsk [2])
• 9 for women (Achinsk [Krasnoyarsk], Cherepanovo [3] [Novosibirsk], Krasnoturinsk [Sverdlovsk], Moshkovo [3] [Novosibirsk], Novosibirsk)
Torture-facility prisons:
42
Psychiatric prisons:
5
References:
Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.